Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Thrasymachus Problem -- A Philosophical Drama -- The Characters -- Socrates and the Logos -- The Digression -- A Model Dialogue -- Doing Well -- A Dialogue on Apparently Doing Well -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author
Summary
Plato's Republic as a Philosophical Drama on Doing Well reimagines the central theme of Plato's foundational work through an interpretation of its characters as paradigms of the apparent good. Focusing attention on the dialogue itself, Ivor Ludlam provides an innovative, holistic, and dramatic new perspective on the classic text
